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Flock 2014 Strasbourg proposal

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Strasbourg

Strasbourg is the capitale of Alsace region in eastern France and the seat of the European Parliament.
It is very close of the border with Germany, and the city and its region are historically german-speaking.

The historic center Grande Île (Grand Island) has been classified by the Unesco as "World Heritage Site" in 1988.
It is an island on the Ill river with many medieval buildings.

Social Event

Pros & Cons

Pros

Fedora Desktop is a GNOME based distros, and many of our contributors working on GNOME can't make it in Flock/FUDCon, like at Flock 2013 due to conflicting dates.
That is a perfect chance to involve them in our discussions, all the more, since we are discussing currently the future of Fedora which includes the GNOME community.
GUADEC Strasbourg organizers are ok with our proposal and are collaborating with us.
That's the strong point of this bid and an unique occasion to get GNOME contributors on board.

Strasbourg is a beautiful medieval city, an european capitale. It's a german-speaking city in France and well connected to Europe.

French & German communities are the most active european local community and Strasbourg is at the border of both countries. It's both French and German speaking.

We'd like to invite some Debian Developers working on Fedora projects like fedmsg (Nicolas Dandrimont, Simon Chopin), Firehose (Stefano Zacchiroli, Sylvestre Ledru) so they can participate to hackatons at Flock. They agreed to participate at Flock if their schedule allows it. We're also considering other opening to our larger community.

This is a great occasion to collaborate with other distros. Suse HQ are not far away ( 8h drive ), and Mageia core contributers are in France, Scotland or Germany.

We are discussing with different potential partners for sponsoring Flock:

Irill a french public research institute dedicated to Free Software directed by Roberto Di Cosmo . It employs many Debian Developers including one former DPL. They offered us to set up video recording of our conference with professional equipment. Some videos recorded by Irill are online for show.

Inria the french computer science research institute which has been sponsoring many FLOSS events and projets. We are actually discussing with Stéphane Ribas, their community manager if Inria could possibly sponsor Flock.